Green light for Nine Elms NHS Health Centre

Nine Elms is a step closer to having a new NHS health centre after Wandsworth Council committed £13m to the scheme using funds collected from the area’s private development sites.

A
new state of the art health centre will be built on Sleaford Street, within
Battersea Power Station’s Phase 4a development. It is expected to open in
2020-21, providing GP and other healthcare services to thousands of existing
local residents as well as new arrivals to the rapidly growing area.

An initial payment of £1.3m to Wandsworth Clinical Commissioning Group (WCCG)
will allow detailed design work to take place with the developer over the
coming months.

Ravi Govindia, leader of Wandsworth Council, said: “This will be a first class
health facility for north Battersea and will make it much easier for local
people to access the quality services they need. The catchment will include
existing housing estates as well as the new developments of Nine Elms where
thousands of Londoners are now moving in.

“This South Bank district requires a whole new network of social and transport
infrastructure as it changes from a logistics and industrial zone to become a
living part of the city centre. So alongside thousands of new affordable homes
we need to provide basic utilities, new health facilities and schools, new
public parks and new community and cultural spaces.

“The
entire surface transport network is being overhauled, including new roads,
footpaths, cycle lanes and a new riverside path. We’re also building new Tube
stations, a riverbus pier and are developing plans for a car-free bridge across
the Thames.

“This
vital new infrastructure network is being funded by the area’s developments
sites and without major taxpayer subsidy.”